Today the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival unveiled the headlining acts
for the second year of the event, which will run September 19 to 28 in multiple
venues in Downtown Rochester.
Aerial dance troupe Bandaloop will return after its crowd-pleasing kickoff
performances at the first Rochester Fringe, which reportedly drew more than 10,000 spectators. Bandaloop will again perform on
the side of One HSBC Plaza for two free shows, September 20 and 21.
The other two headlining acts for
this year are Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and newspaper columnist Dave
Barry and comedian Marc Maron, who produces the popular
podcast “WTF with Marc Maron.” Barry will perform
Friday, September 27 ($20-$65), Maron Saturday,
September 21 ($20-$55), with both shows taking place at Kodak Hall at Eastman
Theatre.
Fringe organizers also announced the
addition of a Spiegeltent as a venue for this year’s
festival. Dutch for “mirror tent,” Spiegeltents are
Belgian in origin, made of wood, fabric, and stained glass, and act as highly
stylized traveling entertainment venues, dating back to the late 19th century.
Rochester Fringe will be the first
Fringe Festival in North America to have a Spiegeltent — in our case, the 72-feet-round “Magic Cristal” tent — and it will be located
on Block F, the parking lot at the corner of Main and Gibbs streets, where it
will be surrounded by an outdoor beer and wine lounge. Fringe organizers said
that special programming will be booked inside the tent every night of the
festival, but details were not released.
The headliners are just a small part
of the Fringe Festival. The full schedule of acts, which will take place in
more than a dozen venues and cross all arts disciplines, will be released on
Wednesday, July 17. For more information check rochesterfringe.com.
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This article appears in Jun 5-11, 2013.
To paraphrase Marc Maron (who I’ve never heard of), WTF is a podcast?
A podcast is basically a radio show that you download or stream, they are awesome! There are thousands of them, about pretty much anything. Some are produced specifically as podcasts, and some are just recordings of radio shows. There are usually no commercials, but they might have live reads for sponsors.
Some of the ones I listen to are:
The Adam Carolla Show
Fitzdog Radio
The Dan Lebatard Show with Stugotz (daily Miami radio sports show)
Around the Horn (daily ESPN show)
The Football Ramble (English/European Soccer)
The B.S. Report (various sports/pop culture from Bill Simmons)
Men in Blazers (soccer show on Grantland network)
Marek vs. Wyshynski (daily hockey show)
NPR radio shows tend to all be available as podcasts too